Christmas and New Year
Sorry!
This long silence is not my doing, but can not connect to the Internet the last few weeks!
Meanwhile we have finalized the rehabilitation of the camp, most of the tracks open and received the first customers.
The guards étrennent their new outfits and we finally handpicked best able to assist customers.
The arrival of Catherine, volunteer chapter "responsible tourism", which will accompany us for three months to complete their training and bring some new blood into our awareness with schools on the outskirts of the Park should further improve the level of accompaniment.
Christmas has come and gone, and the festival was successful ... Despite the increasing supply difficulties in Garoua, Mai took up the challenge of a master hand!
On the menu for both parties:
Cocktails and appetizers
Cream of Pumpkin with Foie Gras
Which side laminated with Gewurztraminer
Jitter Cobe Honey and pine nuts
Homemade cheese
Fruit jelly on mango coulis
Citronelle and Sweets ...
With 11 ° in the morning, the presents under the tree, a real Christmas that customers have come to appreciate the true value, somewhere in the bush at the end of the world ...
My Christmas present to me, was to observe a herd of ten elephants cross the Mayo before the camp at daybreak.
Buffalo and lions also got together for the first customers, and a panther, quietly observed along the track to get there and back by a family happy ...
Eland and giraffe were seen despite the bushfires which are in full swing at this time ... Well it all looks good enough for the new year that it remains for us to accommodate a bang, and we wish you all full of happiness and joy!
Also a nice shot in Dominica with a captain in the 24kg Mare Leo who, four years ago, was a center of poaching and had been poisoned!
(See blog).
Like elephants in Mayo before the camp in broad daylight, lions increasingly brazen near the camp, it comforts us and shows that with a little perseverance and willpower, you get there!
First attempt, master stroke!
The team Boubandjida wish you all a wonderful New Year 2010
"It is we Africans
Who have come a long
We come from the colonies
To save the homeland
We have left everything
Parents, shacks, homes
And we have the heart
An unconquerable ardor "
Do you remember??
In fact, you put a few words in reverse, you shake, and you're almost there ....
So you both alles cambogia, Rutsch Gutti .... It can not be worse than 40!
The brother
Hi Paul,
Best wishes to you, Mai and your team. Congratulations on your tenacity and passion at the service life of the Park. The task is not simple, but your initiative contributes to his measure to address a major issue that faces our planet today: the preservation of biodiversity. A building block, but a large stone ..
Hello Paul,
Your website is really nice and seems to be a fair reflection of the remarkable work that you realize in this park in general and your particular project. To read you there is no doubt that passion is a positive obsession.
I enjoy being at the dawn of this new year to wish you joy, creativity and success in your future projects. That on a personal level it can overflow with happiness, prosperity and good surprises.
Sincerely.
Joel
Hello,
Paul and every one in Boubandjida
That made our staying very special ounces more!
We want to let you know That we are safe back in Nigeria and we enjoyed our holiday Every Moment of there!
We Have Traveled in Many parks in Africa, in the south, east and
west and we are ready to say Certainly Boubandjida Park is
Three Among the best parks!
Is a special place and we know That this due to the great personal efforts of Whom belive That the Derby Eland and Roan Antelope all the Other Animals Need Their Space, Their is not
much left all over Africa.
Thank you Paul That you could with your team in a remarking effort, we hope you Will Be Able to Achieve Most Of your
target .....
All the best for 2010
Giacomo and Franca
Sorry, for not writing in french, you well know purpose That is very
difficulty for me!